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Posted by Bill Horne on August 6, 2007, 3:06 pm
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Subject: Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:42:28 -0400
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Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
By JAMES RISEN
The New York Times
August 6, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 - President Bush signed into law on Sunday
legislation that broadly expanded the government's authority to
eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of
American citizens without warrants.
Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law
said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that
administration officials had said were needed to gather information
about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in
legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the
government's ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail
messages going in and out of the United States.
They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal
framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was
being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is
supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private
communications of American citizens.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/washington/06nsa.html?ex=1344052800&en=5e759f53fc811cd7&ei=5090
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